Confection-baking apparatus.



l UNITED y .srArRs .PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD `II. LANIER AND FRANK K. DR'IEsBAcII, oF CINCINNATI, oIIIo. I CONFECTION-BAKING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed July Z5, 1906. Serial No. 327,740.

The present invention relates to improvements in confection apparatus of the character illustrated and described in our earlier application, Serial N o. 284,563, which apparatus isparticularly designed for cooking or baking the container or shell of the confection known as Parisian ice-cream cones In using apparatus like that illustrated in the aforesaid application it is found that as ent invention.

the core is surrounded throughout its length by the oven-walls and only heated by raciation'4 from said walls it occasionally after a repeated number of operations is not heated suliiciently to -insure a 'uniform baking of the cone-that is, after the core has been repeatedly withdrawn from the oven and dipped into the cool batter it will be chilled, so that the inner surface of the container will not be baked as thoroughly or completely as the outer surface, which exposed to the heat of the oven-walls.

The object of the present invention is to obviate this and provisie a construction by which the core will be heated not only by radiation from the oven-Walls, but also by the direct action of the heating burner or stove.'

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical-sectional view through an apparatus 'constructed in accordance with the pres- Fig. 2` is a plan view ofthe apparatus. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, the apparatus comprises a base or supporting ring 1, de-` signed to be arranged about or over a suitable heating means, such as a gasoleneburner, (conventionally illustrated at 2,) sa1d ring or base supporting an oven comprising two similarly-shaped members 3, 3a, which are pivotally connectedat 4 and each provided with a handle 5.- The sections 3 38L of the oven are so shaped as to form between them a conical chamber into which a core 6 is adapted to extend, said core being connected with a suitable handle 7, provided with radially-projecting arms 8, adapted. toengage withthe walls of the oven to support the core therein. The handle 7 is connected with the body l"of the core 6 .by means including 'a coiled spring 9, whereby said core-body is adapted to move longitudinally relative to` the handle and oven While supported in the latter. i

The parts of the apparatus hereinbefore described are similar to and operate in the manner described in the aforesaid application.

In order that thecore 6 may be properly heated at all times, we provide suitable slots or apertures 10 l0a in the oven-sections 3 3a, whereby a portion of the core will be exposed to the direct action of the burner or heatin device 2. It will be understood that the oven is mounted inthe ring or base 1, so. as to move about a horizontal axis and bring either section 3 3a of the oven directly above -l the burner 2.

In using the apparatus the core 6 is dipped into a body of suitable batter to cause a thin iilm or coating thereof to adhere to its 'body and is then inserted in the oven,where said hlm or coating of batter is quickly baked,

when the core can be withdrawn and the pas- 'try cone removed therefrom and afterward filled with ice-cream or other desired material. It is therefore necessary to repeatedly ex ose the core to the air, and it is also chilled or cooled by being dipped in the batter, and it has been found when the only means for heating said-core is the heat radiated from the oven-walls that the outer surface of the pastry-cone will be more rapidly baked than the interior thereof, and therefore the cone when removed from the corewill not be thoroughly and completely baked. By providing the apparatus with slots 10 10a 4in the oven-walls, however, a section of the core is exposed to the direct -action of the heating means, and it is thus maintained at substantially the same temperature as the oven-walls, and experience has shown that we thereby insure a uniform bakinr of the pastry, which is of course very desirable.

It will of course be understood thatin using the apparatus the core is not coated with the batter to such an extent that said coating -will be exposed through the slots 10 10a. Preferably the said coating will terminate substantially as indicated by the dotted line 11 in Fig. 1.

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Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be securedV by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described baking ap aratus comprising an oven having a conical c amber and provided adjacent the larger end of said chamber with an aperture or passage that extends from the chamberithrough the .outer face of the oven-wall which is adapted tobe directly heated, and a core adapted to be in.- serted in the oven-chamber and extend across-said aperture or passage inthe wall thereof.

2. The herein-described baking apparatus comprising an oven, having a conical changber, means for supporting the oven and permitting it to turn about a horizontal axis to expose either of two opposite sides to the direct action of a heating device, the oven being provided adjacent the larger end thereof with apertures or passages extending from its chamberthrough the outer faces of both said walls or sides, and a core adapted to be inserted in the oven and extend across said apertures or passages in the walls thereof.

3. The herein-described baking apparatus comprising an oven havingv a conical chamber and mountedto rotate about a horizontal each section having therein an aperture or 4o passage leading from the oven-chamber, adjacent the larger end thereof, through the` outer face of said section, a core adapted to bei inserted in said oven and extend across the aforesaid apertures or passages, and 45 means for supporting said oven above a suitable heatin means and permitting either section of t e oven to be brought adjacent said heating means.

5. Thaherein-described baking apparatus 5o comprising anoven mounted to rotate about a horizontal axis and comprising two sections pivotally connected and arranged toform a conical chamber, each of said sections having formed thereinl a passage or aperture extend- 5 5 ing. from the oven-chamber, adjacent the the oven above a heating device, with its apertured side adjacent said heating device, and a core detachably supported in the oven, whereby a section of the core is adapted to be directly heatedl by the heating device, while the other portions thereof are heated by radi- 7o ation from the oven-walls.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signa; tures in presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD H. LANIER. FRANK K. DRIESBACH. Witnesses:

BERNARD M. WILLINGER, EDWARD MAUS'. 

